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...gallery's nearly 170 pieces mainly concentrate on Islamic art from countries such as Spain and India. One room showcases sacred Muslim, Jewish and Christian texts. Last month a party marking the gallery's opening drew nearly 300 people, including many Muslim professionals from across the Detroit region. Many hadn't bothered visiting the museum before or hadn't spent much time there. "They didn't feel connected," says Ali Moiin, a prominent physician and the chair of the DIA's Asian and Islamic Arts Forum. The prevailing view, he adds, was, " 'There was nothing I wanted...
...sidelines. Instead of a foreign policy triumph, 2010 began with an unseemly squabble over whether or not to bail out Greece, whose debt has dragged down Europe's currency. At the same time, U.S. President Barack Obama announced he would be skipping an E.U.-U.S. confab in Spain in May, frustrated, it appeared, with the endless summitry that goes with accommodating the E.U. Little wonder that Europe finds itself in one of its periodic bouts of angst-ridden self-doubt. And little wonder that the rest of the world is asking questions: What does Europe stand for? Where does...
...flying off shelves. The reason: beyond its recent drop, some analysts expect the euro to weaken further as markets - assuming that Greece's apparently successful bond issue this week signaled that the worst of that crisis is over - turn their sights to the troubled finances of Italy, Portugal and Spain. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie. On March 3, a sudden wall of water hit a cruise ship sailing in the Mediterranean Sea off the northeastern coast of Spain, killing two people, injuring 14 and causing severe damage to the vessel...
...trip has to do a minimum of five hours.” As a destination, Dublin turned out to be the most reasonable option. “It’s actually one of the cheaper alternatives that we looked into—cheaper plane tickets than Spain and places in the Caribbean,” she says. A priority for the team was that all players could go. “We wanted everyone who wanted to go on this trip to be able to come,” explains Calixte...